Marketing Strategies of Surf Excel in Pakistan

Buyer’s behavior is strongly influenced by members of their family. Personal factors can also affect the consumer behavior. Some of the important personal factors that influence the buying behavior are: lifestyle, economic situation, occupation, age, personality and self-concept. Age and life-cycle have potential impact on the consumer buying behavior. The occupation of a person has significant impact on his buying behavior. Consumer economic situation has great influence on his buying behavior. If the income and savings of a customer is high then he will purchase more expensive products. On the other hand, a person with low income and savings will purchase inexpensive products. Lifestyle of customers is another import factor affecting the consumer buying behavior. There are four important psychological factors affecting the consumer buying behavior. These are: perception, motivation, learning, beliefs and attitudes. The level of motivation also affects the buying behavior of customers. Every person has different needs such as physiological needs, biological needs, and social needs. Customer possesses specific belief and attitude towards various products. Since such beliefs and attitudes make up brand image and affect consumer buying behavior; therefore, marketers are interested in them.

Its origin goes back to the 19th century when a group of companies operating independently, produced soaps and margarine. In 1930, the companies merged to form Unilever that diversified into food products in 1940s. Through the next five decades, it emerged as a major fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) multinational operating in several businesses. In 2004, the Unilever 2010 strategic plan was put into action with the mission to ‘bring vitality to life’ and ‘to meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life’. The corporate strategy is of focusing on core businesses of food, home care and personal care. Unilever operates in more than 100 countries, has a turnover of €39.6 billion and net profit of €3.685 billion in 2006 and derives 41 per cent of its income from the developing and emerging economies around the world. It has 179,000 employees and is a culturally-diverse organization with its top management coming from 24 nations. Internationalization is based on the principle of local roots with global scale aimed at becoming a ‘multi-local

Unilever, founded in 1929, is an Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its headquarters are in London, England and in Rotterdam, Netherlands as well. It is the world's third-largest consumer goods company as of 2012. It is also one of the oldest multinational companies in the world, its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. And these products are available in 190 countries.

Unilever currently has three manufacturing plants in South Africa, located in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg. The factories manufacture a range of personal care and food products, such as ice cream, tea, and margarine spread. The country’s logistic infrastructure and ports are very well developed; in fact, 98% of its imports come in through port terminals. The roads in

People think, desire and act different. Consumer psychology can be a study of costumer behavior. Market communication will involve in consumer psychology by media promoting and targeting people by the evidence collected. These articles represent that behavior that bring joy to people and creates a study of marketing based on those behaviors. Understanding consumer psychology behavior is a key to innovation to those products people desire, in a way of marketing to provide that special feature they are looking for.

Batra, S. K., Kazmi, S. H. H. and Batra, S. K. (2009). Consumer Behaviour-2nd. New Delhi: Excel Books India.

In addition, a large number of brands also results in a lack of a unified global identity. Many of Unilever’s product categories had checkered identities. As Deighton exemplified, the company used to produce ice cream under different brands among the globe, such as Wall in the U.K. and Asia, Kibon in Brazil, Ben & Jerry’s and Breyers in the United States, Langnese in Germany, and so forth. Each one had a

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company with a heritage of over 80 years in India. The company claims that it and touches the lives of two out of three Indians. Hindustan Unilever has around 35 brands spanning around 20 districts in India.

This paper will discuss the psychological and social factors, such as motives, perception, attitudes, personality, family, social class, and reference group that influence consumer behavior toward a product or service. It is important for marketers to develop an effective marketing message, understand and know how to apply this knowledge of consumer psychology to create and develop an effective marketing of its products and services.

The book of Marketing Management defines “Market Segmentation” as the process of dividing the market into group(s) of similar consumers and selecting the most appropriate to serve. Eventually, the selected group will be called the target market. According to this definition and the case on hand, Printup must decide on the parameters according to which she should start the segmentation process. I suggest using the psychographic segmentation as basis where consumers’ lifestyle is investigated by asking them about their activities, interests and opinions (AIO) and then grouped according to the similarity of their

Unilever is an international corporation that manufactures Axe deodorant and body sprays. With sales over $100 million, teenage boys use Axe regularly. To market their products, Unilever

Possibly the most challenging concept in the marketing is to deal with understanding the consumer behaviour. This research paper explains the changes occurred in consumer behaviour of India. The purpose of this research paper is to find out the factors that are affecting the consumer behaviour and what strategies can be formed to adopt those changes and achieve the long term growth and success. The synthesis of this research paper is based on the secondary data sources as well as the observation of buying behaviour of consumers. The attitude of Indian consumers has undergone a major transformation over the last few years. The Indian consumer today wants to lead a life full of

Market segmentation is the key strategic concept in marketing today (Michael N. Tuma, 2011). It is shows as the attempt to distinguish 'homogeneous groups of customers who can be targeted in the same manner because they have similar needs and preferences'. (Wedel & Kamakura, 2002). Good market segmentations helps in understanding the

It can also be seen as an equivalent of the concept of "culture" when it is used for segmentation at a national level. Psychographics is commonly known as study of ‘lifestyle’ of consumers. It plays an important part in building consumer behaviour and helps in the promotion of those products and services which are related to items of personal care, fashion, automobiles, telephone services, alcoholic drinks, news papers, magazines, food products like milk, tea, coffee. In a country of the size of India where life style differs widely from region to region the study of consumer psychographic is of great significance to marketer.

This market research is associated with PAK’nSAVE Limited making survey regarding making improvement in the services and to find out the customer problems regarding services in order to cope up with the increasing competition in the market.